Dullest Football Since Pearce?

[Deleted member 77198]

We have never seen teams line up the way opponents do against us now. Never. Pearce’s response would be to shove Eddie up front.

Hang on...

We have. They’ve been doing it for years. Teams are not defending any differently against us than they were since that run of games at the start of the 2011-12 season when we were scoring a load of goals. Ever since teams woke up to how good we were then, it’s been parked buses most weeks.

But we had any combination of Silva Kun Tevez Džeko Balotelli Nasri Yaya; Silva Kun Džeko Negredo Jovetic Nasri Yaya; Silva Kun Sané Bernardo Sterling Jesus deBruyne all playing well and combating those packed defences. With the rocks of deJong and Barry behind them or the best #6 in the world over a long stretch of those years in Fernandinho.

Now we have an older de Bruyne underperforming, Sterling underperforming, Jesus underperforming, Mahrez underperforming and Foden/Bernardo/Torres hardly in the team and mostly underperforming when they do play with Gundogan being the only shining light. And even if they were playing well, they aren’t as good as their predecessors. de Bruyne is the same man but he isn’t as good a player as he was three years ago.

It’s our regression that’s the problem, not any change in the oppositions’ tactics.

 

[Kippax77]

yep they are scared of making mistakes. That’s why the vast majority of them when they get the ball pass it immediately back to the person who has just passed it to them.

Sterlings the worse for it.
Someone please tell me his position.
When hes out wide he plays the ball back to our "wingback", otherwise he fucks off into congested areas where he can't receive the ball.
Fucking fake who is the first name on the teamsheet.
I honestly feel some England players have it as part of their contracts to play.
Advertising endorsements etc

 

[Deleted member 77198]

At least with Pearce we were shit because we were actually shit. This lot are world class.

Who is world class in our team?

Ederson
Walker
deBruyne
Kun

That’s it.

And de Bruyne’s form has been poor and Kun has been injured, Walker doesn’t play every week and then you’re left with a world class ’keeper and a full set of not world class outfield players.

Our past teams had better quality players than we have now.

 

[City Raider]

We have. They’ve been doing it for years. Teams are not defending any differently against us than they were since that run of games at the start of the 2011-12 season when we were scoring a load of goals. Ever since teams woke up to how good we were then, it’s been parked buses most weeks.

But we had any combination of Silva Kun Tevez Džeko Balotelli Nasri Yaya; Silva Kun Džeko Negredo Jovetic Nasri Yaya; Silva Kun Sané Bernardo Sterling Jesus deBruyne all playing well and combating those packed defences. With the rocks of deJong and Barry behind them or the best #6 in the world over a long stretch of those years in Fernandinho.

Now we have an older de Bruyne underperforming, Sterling underperforming, Jesus underperforming, Mahrez underperforming and Foden/Bernardo/Torres hardly in the team and mostly underperforming when they do play with Gundogan being the only shining light. And even if they were playing well, they aren’t as good as their predecessors. de Bruyne is the same man but he isn’t as good a player as he was three years ago.

It’s our regression that’s the problem, not any change in the oppositions’ tactics.

Sorry but we’ll have to disagree. Just looking at the goals we scored at start of 2011-12 and generally there isn’t the same amount of defensive players in/around the box

 

[mancity1]

Who is world class in our team?

Ederson
Walker
deBruyne
Kun

That’s it.

And de Bruyne’s form has been poor and Kun has been injured, Walker doesn’t play every week and then you’re left with a world class ’keeper and a full set of not world class outfield players.

Our past teams had better quality players than we have now.

I would argue that at their current age and condition we have no world class players.

We have let the squad regress to a level where it needs a major overhaul.

Forget winning a title with this squad its nowhere near it.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

I would argue that at their current age and condition we have no world class players.

We have let the squad regress to a level where it needs a major overhaul.

Forget winning a title with this squad its nowhere near it.

top 4 is a must

 

[doobyedoobye]

We are not out of a single competition and still in the midst of a pandemic. The football might not be pretty but the squad is the best squad in the country and we still don’t have our talismanic striker back in the team. No overhaul needed IMO..

 

[AlexWilliamsGloves]

Who is world class in our team?

Ederson
Walker
deBruyne
Kun

That’s it.

And de Bruyne’s form has been poor and Kun has been injured, Walker doesn’t play every week and then you’re left with a world class ’keeper and a full set of not world class outfield players.

Our past teams had better quality players than we have now.

Is Ederson world class? His national team manager doesnt quite think so?

Yes he has an amazing boot, and can place the ball anywhere...but i think his main job, of stopping the ball going in the net, can be sketchy....many of the goals he concedes are relatively straight forward....and more and more of his casual approach to opposition attackers is starting to turn against him

 

[The1nvisibleMan]

We are not out of a single competition and still in the midst of a pandemic. The football might not be pretty but the squad is the best squad in the country and we still don’t have our talismanic striker back in the team. No overhaul needed IMO..

Overhaul somewhat needed, should be doing better with what we’ve got right now but you are correct we are still in all comps. But something needs to be done soonish to fix this mess

 

[yerwot?]

with so many players underperforming, the lack of any sort of variety or creativity in our play, points to a break-down between manager and team, imo.
Fixing the problem is not going to be signing a centre-forward, playing more youth teamers, Kev suddenly becoming his old persona. The board have a major decision to make.....